Playing .wav files

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Playing .wav files
started by: bokaroseani

Posted by bokaroseani on Mar. 25 2006,23:42

Hi, How can I play .wav files that I download? I get the following error message when I try to click on it in Emelfm:

libasound.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libcdread.so: undefined symbol: playlist_generate_shuffle_list
libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
tar (child): .xmms/Skins/myxmms-default-1.01.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Do I need to install some new packages? Is anyone able to play wav files on DSL? Please help.

Anirban

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 26 2006,01:49

None of those error messages are directly related to playing audio...they all occured during the initialization of xmms. The first ones are common in DSL, caused by missing non-vital libs. The tar error is uncommon...apparently your skin file is corrupted. I don't think that would prevent xmms from playing a file.

Do you have audio working in general?

Posted by bokaroseani on Mar. 26 2006,02:55

Yes, I can play mp3 files very well using xmms. I didnt try playing other kinds of media files though. Is there something additional that I need to download to play wav files?

Posted by lovdsl on Mar. 26 2006,03:36

Well in confirmation..I get the first errors aswell and as said they are caused by non-vital libs that have been removed in dsl..but xmms opens and plays mp3 and wav files and I can click open in emelfm..perhaps a snd card issue?I noticed that on some cards the volums are differently controlled..may seem silly but if the xmms opens and there is no sound..check the various volumes..this happened to me in haste. if is seems rude

Posted by bokaroseani on Mar. 26 2006,04:46

Thanks. I checked the volume settings. They are all set to the highest possible volume. This time I rebooted my computer and now I dont get the last four lines of tar errors. I still get the first four lines of errors. What kind of sound card issues can it possibly be? It is amazing that I can play mp3 files but no wav files.

Posted by bokaroseani on Mar. 27 2006,00:39

One more thing that I forgot to mention in my original post was that when I click the .wav file in emelfm, the Xmms client comes up without actually playing the file. Automatically, a "Play files" window pops up. When I make the selection of the file to play and then click on "play" within this "Play files" window, nothing happens other than the "play files" window disappearing. Does this additiona piece of info provides any clue to the anyone here what might be wrong?

If someone has some other advice or using some other programs (other than xmms) that I can easily download from the DSL repository to play wav files, I will really appreciate it.

Thanks.

Posted by lovdsl on April 13 2006,08:48

I was just saying that you should not have to add anything to play wav files in xmms. I just opened a list of short .wav files in emelfm and xmms opened and played them..I really do not know what the issue is..what are you playing and why do you want to play wav...I use .wav in opera so tested in xmms...some do not work in opera, not sure why but all played in xmms..

Posted by mikshaw on April 13 2006,14:04

If xmms works for mp3 but not for wav, trying other software isn't likely going to help. Generally apps that need to read common file formats will rely on shared libraries to do the actual decoding. If you install another piece of software it will most likely have the same results.
Possibly the PCM mixer is muted.
Another possibility, maybe you somehow disable the wav plugin in xmms.
Or your wav files might be corrupted, or be something other than standard wavs (wma maybe?).

I'm just making guesses here.

If you do want to try something else, there is a sox extension in the mydsl repository, which is a commandline audio player/editor. The command to play wavs from sox in DSL is "/opt/sox/play filename.wav".